Rail-joint support.



. H. DALRYMPLE.

RAIL JOINT SUPPORT.

' Patented Apr. 11,1916.

' v 2 SHEETS SHEET H. DALRYMPLE.

RAIL JOINT SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17. I916.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916,

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BAIL-JOINT SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

Application filed January 17, 1916. Serial No. 72,536.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY DALRYMPLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Monroe, in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joint Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in means for supporting the ends of jointed railway rails.

An object of the invention is to utilize old and discarded rails and to arrange the same upon the tie beneath the meeting ends of two rails in such a manner as to hold the same against movement and to provide a strong and effective rest for the rails and to connect the rails with the usual fish plates or angle bars which are also secured to the support for the joint.

Another object of the invention is to provide two of the ties beneath the meeting ends of railway rails with a connecting strap to hold the same properly spaced apart; to arrange upon the ties a grooved plate having an angle or hanger portion which contacts with the inner faces of the ties and which is formed with a flange or shelf; to provide an old or discarded rail of a length equaling the distance between the ties and to cut the same adjacent its ends so that the cut flanges of the supportingrail at the ends thereof will be received in the mentioned grooves of the plate and the heads will rest upon the flanges or shelves of the hanger members of the plates, and to provide the rails with the usual connecting fish plates, while-spikes contact with the edges of the rails and with the edges of the support for holding the same in a line with the rails.

With the above and other objects in View, the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of two rails constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately central of one of the ties. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, a portion of the rails, the ties, the ends of the chair, the brackets and the filler blocks being shown in section. Fig. 4 is a central transverse sectional view approximately on the line 44 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of one of the bracket members for'the support, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the support. In the drawings 1l designate two alin- 1ng ralls of the ordinary construction and 3-3 the ties upon which the rails rest. The rails have their ends provided with the usual angle bars 4: which are connected with the ordinary bolts and nuts therefor. The ties 3 to the opposite sides of the joint are preferably sawed to provide horizontally straight upper andlower faces and vertically straight side faces, and these ties adjacent their endsiare connected by straps 5 which extend beneath the ties and which havetheir ends bent against the outer sides or faces of-the ties and secured thereto by splkes, wood screws or similar elements indicated by the numerals 6. I

Resting upon the upper face of each of the mentioned ties 3 is the horizontally straight plate 7 of a bracket member 8. The plate 7 is preferably of a materially greater thickness than the remainder of the bracket and is formed with a central longitudinally extending channel or depression 9. Each of the brackets includes a right angular portion 10 formed upon the inner edge of the plate 7 and which is adapted to contact with the inner straight face of each of the re ferred to ties 3, and the lower edge of each of the said members 10 is formed with an outwardly extending flange or shelf 11, and if desired, the said shelves may have their upper faces centrally formed with a depression providing a pocket 12.

i The supporting member is indicated by the numeral 13. The supports 13 are formed of pieces of old or discarded rails, the same being of a length equaling the distance between the referred to ties 33, and the rail sections 13, at their ends, are cut vertically to provide shoulders 14 and are cut from their said ends on their web a distance from their base to provide what I will term ribs 15. The ribs 15 are adapted to be received in the depressions 9 in the plates 7 of the brackets 8 and the shoulders 14 are adapted to contact with the vertical or angular members 10 of the brackets, while the head 16 of the supporting member 13 rests upon the shelves 11 of the said brackets, and if desired, and preferably the said heads have their ends received in the pockets 12 in the said shelves.

The numerals l7 designate spikes which are inserted in the referred to ties 3 and have their heads engaged with the flanges of the rails 11 and their shanks, adjacent their heads, contact with the longitudinal edges of the plate 7 of the brackets 8 as well as with the longitudinal edges of the supporting members 13.

It is to be understood that the supporting members 13 may be elevated toward the rails or raised upon the ties 3 by providing suitable tiller blocks 18 between the plates 7 of the brackets and upon the shelves 11 of the said brackets.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the simplicity of the device, as well as the advantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invention appertains without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is z 1. The combination of two rails having their ends connected and ties upon which the rails rest, a strap member connecting the ties below the joint, a bracket including a horizontal plate secured upon the upper face of each of the referred to ties, each of said brackets including an angular portion which contacts with the inner face of one of the mentioned ties and which has its lower edge flanged to provide a horizontal shelf, a supporting member underlying the rails at the joint thereof and having its ends reduced and resting on the horizontal plates of the brackets and having its main portion received between the ties and resting upon the shelves of the brackets, and spike members entering the ties and contacting with the edges of the referred to plates of the brackets, the supporting member and overlying the fianges of the rails.

2. The combination with the meeting ends of two rails, ties arranged below the rails at the meeting ends thereof, and means for connecting the rails, of a strap connecting the ties, a bracket including a horizontal plate arranged upon each of the ties, each of said brackets having a depending portion contacting with the inner face of the mentioned ties, and the ends thereof formed with an outwardly extending flange provid ing a shelf, the plates of the brackets each having a longitudinal groove, a supporting member including a widened top, a flange, and a head member formed with the flange, said supporting member having its ends reduced and formed with longitudinal ribs in a line with the web, and the said ribs adapted to be received in the depressions in the horizontal plates of the brackets, and the head of said supporting member resting on the shelves of the brackets, and means for securing the supporting member upon the brackets and connecting the rails thereto.

3. The combination with two joined rails and ties upon which the rails rest, of grooved plates on the ties opposite the ends of the rails, a supporting member including a flat head having a central depending body and depending ribs extending longitudinally from the ends of the support to the body, and said ribs adapted to be received in the grooves of the plates, and means for securing the ends of the support and the plate to the ties and to the rails.

A support for underlying the joined ends of two railway rails and adapted to rest upon two ties, comprising a member having a flanged top and a depending body provided with a head, and ribs depending from the flange and longitudinally thereof, and the ribbed portions of the support adapted to be received in two of the ties.

I The combination with the joined ends of two railway rails and two ties upon which the rails rest at the joint thereof, of a. support formed from a rail which is inverted to have its flange engage with the underfaces of the base of the rails, and

which has its ends notched to provide the ends of its webs with ribs, and the ribbed portion of the support adapted to rest upon the said ties.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY DALRYMPLE. Witnesses F. WV. JoHNsoN, FRANK CIIIrPs.

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